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CW: Animated gore, hover over blurred image to reveal animation!

It is a gorgeous rainy summer day down here in Lutruwita. This household is one of mixed theologies so no Christmas here beside some Italian treats and a roast lunch. We really just use the day as an excuse to eat a little more indulgently than normal. Sometimes I miss the tree and the lights, but mostly not. If ever this household revisits the xmas spirit it will be to put up faerie lights to stay all year round and a living tree to decorate differently as the wheel of the year turns.

My critique partner finished their read through of Project E and I couldn’t be happier with all of the notes and suggestions I walked away with. This process has significantly improved the novel, for sure. Also, they made art which I will one day share! It feels so nice that my story stuck with them enough to inspire such wonderful creations~

I have finished the yt playlist for Project E which you can find here. It is chockas with bangers. I’m currently compiling my list of potential Lit Agents to pitch her to. Project E, not the playlist. Wish me luck

I picked up a heap of indie games during the holiday season, which of course means I’m not diving into my backlog and trying out things which I hadn’t given much a chance back when I first got them. Case-in-point, UBERMOSH. What a fucking completely overwhelming metal-as-fuck punk-as-hell series. Currently slamming my head against UBERMOSH: WRAITH as I enjoy having the endless field to run across, as some of them take place inside very compact and claustrophobic maps. If you like brutally difficult arcade twinstick shooters where you only have to live for 90 seconds to win, I can’t recommend this entire franchise enough. (plus they’re dirt cheap)

I just finished All The Murmuring Bones by the fabulous Angela Slatter and I have started… two new books to try to close out the year with, Smothermoss by Alisa Alering (audible) and The Echoes by Evie Wyld (paperback). It is interesting how these two books are so different and yet their vibes are so similar. Both are distant and strange, dream-like and whimsical, making me feel nostalgic for something I have never (and never want to) experience. Pure witchcraft. Thank you to all three of these simply gorgeous authors for making me feel real magic.

Last saturday I got to play Death in Space with my TTRPG pals~ What a wild little system. It was a lot for everyone to remember the Void Points each time someone failed, but man it is so rewarding to have a mechanic that lets you stack up failures so that you can (almost) guarantee a success later. Also the “magic” in the game is powered by these Void Points as well! It’s so cool~ We didn’t quite finish the adventure I’d drummed up for them, but we’re all looking forward to smashing it out next time.

~Adorne Sibley

Today’s animation is brought to you by Pip and the Pastel Hell! It's subtle foreshadowing of Hank's lactose intolerance.

I'm participating in Scream Jam! I'm finally freaking doing it! I'm making a game!!! I'd never heard of Gdevelop until I looked at Scream Jam. I'd been considering using RPG Maker MZ right up until the day before the Jam started, but at the last minute I checked out Gdevelop and thought it seemed pretty intuitive and more flexible, so switched over. Already I've got movement, camera control, and dialogue (with branching paths and variables that allow for event tracking) implemented. I'm making the vast majority of assets from scratch, so wish me luck~

Here, to my right, is one of the main character's animations. Her name is Pip! She's very squishy.

That's pretty much my exclusive focus for the next week, so updates to the site may not be incoming.

Over the weekend I had the joy of volunteering at a local writer's fesitval and got to seem some incredible folks speak on writing, including Markus Zusak and Robbie Arnott. It's so relieving that these two world-class writers are just dudes. This is in contrast to ethereal writers like Mark Z. Danielewski and the problematic Neil Gaiman, who are just as weird and ephemeral as they seem through their writing. I also discovered many new writers to dive into over the course of the weekend. Eugen Bacon, Angela Slatter, Mark Mupotsa-Russell, and Joana Nell were all writers who were entirely new to me, and their talks have really helped me look at characterization and storytelling in ways I hadn't before. It was massively inspiring, so having to dedicate my time to video game creation instead of writing is... a little torturous. XD I am so excited to get back to editing Project E and my other short stories.

~Adorne Sibley

P.S. I got to go to a late night event called SMUT, and it was an absolute riot. I got to watch Cameron Hindrum, Tasmanian writer and poet extrodinaire, read one of James Joyce's letters to his wife, and the entire room lost their collective mind when we got to the farting. Seriously, don't Google "James Joyce Letters to Wife" unless you're prepared to learn about every single kink he had. During that night I also got to hear the singular sex scenes from "The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt" by Mark Mupotsa-Russell, and "Mrs. Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year" by Joana Nell. I purchased both of them the next day.

Update for all of you! I have two stories up under writies if you click the Read Only Memory: Electronic floppy. Appropriate trigger warnings are on the page where you select the story you'd like to read.

As well, if you head over to the Art page, you'll find a Doom Maps page now exists. Inside, I've uploaded three levels, and provided videos of gameplay! Give em a go and feel free to leave comments in the Guestbook~

Lastly, but not leastly, I've continued adding yet more art to the About page, which will obviously end up on the Blinkies showcase as well.

Life and writing is busy, but I'm doing my best to keep updating and filling out the site. (There is a WIP shrine for Alan Wake, but I can't in good conscience recommend you check it out yet)

~Adorne Sibley

I've got more pages up and running! Now the only page that doesn't have anything on the other end of it is the Shrines page! Feel free to click around and explore~ (And if you've been here before make sure to clear cache! On windows you can do this by holding Shift+Ctrl and pressing R. That way the links work properly!

I am officially a supporter of Neocities, happily, and have gone ahead and used that to enable WebAmp and upload the PDF to Anachronism, the first mini zine from my project Umbrulexicon!

Life gets fucking busy, but it's so nice to stop and tinker on my website every so often. I'm currently listening to Camp Damascus from Chuck Tingle, I'm not sure what's scarier the HORROR or the religious brainwashing. As well I've been playing a lot of Salt and Sanctuary, getting further than I ever have before! It's inspiring some ideas in me~

As well there are a few short stories I've been tinkering with. I don't know if I've ever had a more productive year when it comes to my creativity.

~Adorne Sibley

Edit: Also I've added the Guestbook feature! It's being hosted through Atabook and I'll be approving messages sent through there, but please feel free to come by and say hello!

Hi everyone! It's been a very busy week as I've rapidly assembled a few pages into moderate levels of function! As of this moment, I have a temporary Art page set up as well as my Writies page. The About page is slowly filling in more and more, and obviously the main page here is getting quite busy~

I am hovering inches above hitting that supporter payment button. I would like to be able to host some songs for Webamp and my Doom levels that I've created, and for only five bucks a month... I could do that. Oh the possibilities. That would also let me host interesting little games cause I could host the files on my website myself.

I've been listening to The Reddening by Adam L.G. Nevill and A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher. Yes, this is tonal whiplash, and no, I don't think I'll be changing my reading/listening habits. XD Adam Nevill is SO good at creating a pervasive sense of unease and dread. I'm kind of jealous. While T. Kingfisher is whimsical to the point that it hurts my soul in the best way possible. She's a horror writer also and this is the kind of genre flexibilty I aspire to. Let me drip fae whispers into your ears, and then make you laugh at the funny man adding one crack of pepper to his soup. I've got a cross country mad max story for you, and then a family drama/horror story. I also have a satirical dark romance horror that's slithering its way to towards this website as I speak.

~Adorne Sibley

Greetings, everyone! I'm Adorne Sibley, a writer, poet, animator, doom mapper, and artist. My favored genres are Horror, Scifi, Urban Fantasty, and Meta Fiction. I've written so much... and the only published things I cannot tell you about. XD 👻

I'm sure this is going to come as a surprise, but this site is now a work in progress. Please feel free to poke around and see what comes up. I'll likely also end up creating a separate landing page complete with trigger warnings for my writing and art. Currently all of the buttons on the left hand side are going to be dead links, and at the bottom of the page you can see a small animated pride-tegram that links over to the Trevor Project. I'm mostly typing this up to test out what the writing looks like once I'm outside of the HTML editor. Thanks for swinging by! Soon enough I'll have a Guestbook setup for y'all to leave little messages. Remember to keep it polite!

If you happen to be here early enough that this is the first post, then I'd like to let you know that I am going to start uploading a serialized story under Writies. As well, when I finish the first part of my "Fictional Play" I'll be uploading that as well, exclusively to my Neocities website.

The Tidings section will be where I post my Newsletters.

TTRPG Stuffs will contain hacked and homebrew content I've made... as well as full projects whenever I finish them. I'll try to keep it organized per system. Expect a lot of Mörk Borg stuff.

Shrines will contain pages dedicated to my many hyperfixatons. I'll likely be making an Alan Wake one first.

Art is where I'll be uploading gifs, animations, art and more as I make it to share for free with all~ If you like anything you find and want to use it, feel free, just link back to this site or the art page.

Aesthetics will contain mood boards for my different writing projects! They'll stay up even once projects have been completed. Before release, they'll have codenames and after I release a project, I'll change its name on here to its release title. (Consider it sneakpeaks at the ideas behind my projects.)

~Adorne Sibley